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Five Islamic State snipers killed by coalition warplanes in Kirkuk
[Iraq News] Warplanes from the United States.-led coalition killed five Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
snipers on Friday, a security source was quoted saying.

An officer with the Kurdish Peshmerga forces told Shafaq News that the jets pounded Islamic State locations in Kabiba village, west of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
killing five snipers from the group.

Islamic State has held a few havens in southwestern Kirkuk, most notably the town of Hawija, since 2014, when the group proclaimed an "Islamic caliphate" on a third of Iraq and Syria. The group had reportedly relocated commands of areas lost to security forces to Kirkuk, with some sources previously quoted saying it became the group’s new capital.


Posted by: Fred 2017-08-05
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